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At CPAC, Rick Santorum slams Mitt Romney's record

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In his speech, Santorum told conservatives that in nominating John McCain in 2008, they had “lost heart” and “listened to the voices that said we had to abandon our principles and our values to get things done.”

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This year, he said, those same forces are pushing conservatives to “do what’s politically reasonable and go out and push someone forward who can win.”

“Well, I think we have learned our lesson,” he added. “The lesson we’ve learned is that we will no longer abandon and apologize for the principles that made this country great for hollow victory in November,” Santorum said.

“We won in 2010 because conservatives rallied. They were excited about the contrasts and the candidates who were put forth in that election, and that’s how we won,” Santorum said. “We always talk about how are we going to get the moderates? Why would an undecided voter vote for a candidate of the party who the party’s not excited about?”

Santorum also seized on the bubbling controversy over the Obama administration’s proposal to require church-run hospitals and universities to offer employees contraception. On Friday, after the speech, the White House reversed course and offered a compromise allowing religious organizations to receive exemptions from the requirement and requiring that insurance companies instead offer the benefit.

“We’ve seen the president of the United States not only tell you what insurance coverage you’re going to have, how much you’re going to be pay, how much you’ll be fined if you don’t — but now he’s telling the Catholic Church that they are forced to pay for things that are against their basic tenets of teaching, against their First Amendment rights,” Santorum said.

Contraception, he argued is a “minor” expense, “something that costs just a few dollars” and is not something that should be covered by insurance.

“This is the kind of coercion that we can expect. It’s not about contraception, it’s about economic liberty. It’s about freedom of speech, it’s about freedom of religion, it’s about government control of your lives and it has to stop,” Santorum said.

Well....I like both Santorum and Romney. I have followed both through the election.

I just finished watching both of their CPAC speeches. (Watched Obama's newcast in between).

Romney ruled. It was incredible. Romney is just more prepared than Santorum. They are very similar but Romney just has the extra things that Santorum doesn't. The audience confirmed what I am writing. Romney really inspired, uplifted, and lead. Romney 2012 all the way. I can't wait to see who he will invite to be Vice President

The crowd dying down midway through is speech. Hummm....Like vanilla ice cream, the first bite is refreshing but it gets old pretty quick. I love his ideas, I love his commitment, but for some reason, I can't stand listening to this guy talk?

The only thing that scares me is a possible second term for Barack Obama--the most ideologically Left-wing president in American history. His nomination by the Democratic Party reveals just how out of touch and far-Left that party has moved. I like Santorum very much, and Romney's speech was excellent. They are fine with me. I want ANYone but Barack Hussein Obama in 2012. I shudder to think what nightmares await us all if Obama were to be reelected. Everything is wrong with his policies and his inept, disastrous administration.

There's alot of shuddering going on in Liberal and Democratic camps as well. Let the GOP primary go all the way to the convention. Dems will be ready to vote out the Republicans in Congress, flip the House, retain the Senate and double down on the WH.

At this point, most Americans don't buy into the Obama-Democratic message of "Hope and Change" rhetoric this time around. It's failed, and failed miserably. Thinking people realize that we are not out of the woods on job creation, and the Obama deficits are completely unsustainable according to all economists. Yet Obama's only solution is to print more money, further weakening our fragile situation, and spend more. Obama has reneged on his transparency pledge, and he continues to pander to any Liberal groups and his policy decisions are anti-family. Obama must be voted out of office on November 6, 2012, and hopefully the American political map will be all red states, with the exception of California and a few northeastern states. Obama is just that unpopular and disliked by tens of millions of worried people--people who are very concerned about the wrong direction he has taken the nation. Food costs, fuel and gasoline, electric rates and just about everything we must purchase have risen dramatically under Obama's watch. Only die-hard Liberal Democrats with their heads in the sand would vote for this hapless incompetent and reward Obama with a second term.

Apparently that the only thiong that Santo can hit Mitt.... Santo is really a sore loser like Nwety

He is a Looter/Thief of his charity fund to BENEFIT/LINED his own pockets and that of his freinds as this fund was operating for 6 years and was folded when the scam was exposed... Also this charity was never register... (something like to Penn State scandal).... what a heartless and digusting soul Santorum is,, preaching that he is the most conversative and Christian family value person.. Yeah... only to himself... NOT ELECTABLE, CANNOT BEAT OBAMA

1. This compassionate Christian conservative founded a charity that was actually a bit of a scam. In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation. While in its first few years the charity cut checks to community groups for $474,000, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation had actually raised more than $1 million, from donors who overlapped with Santorum’s political fund raising. Where did the majority of the charity’s money go? In salary and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum’s finance director Rob Bickhart, later finance chair of the Republican National Committee. When I reported on Santorum’s charity for The American Prospect in 2006, experts told me a responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants, and they were shocked to learn the figure for Operation Good Neighbor Fund was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn’t register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law — was finally disbanded in 2007.

5. Washington’s lobbyist culture — Santorum was soaking in it. The ex-Pennsylvania senator spent much of his final years in government trying to downplay and defend his involvement in the so-called “K Street Project,” an effort created by GOP uber-lobbyist and tax-cutting fanatic Grover Norquist and future felon and House majority whip Tom DeLay. By all accounts, Santorum was the Senate’s “point man” on the K Street Project and he met with Norquist — at least occasionally and perhaps frequently — to discuss the effort to sure that Republicans were landing well-paying jobs in lobbying firms that were seeking to then access and influence other Republicans.

6. Santorum had no problem with big government if it was supporting his campaign contributors in Big Pharma. It’s little wonder that Santorum ultimately supported Medicare Part D, a prescription drug plan for the elderly that has added hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit and was drafted in such a way to best help pharmaceutical companies maximize profits from all the unbridled spending. When Santorum was defeated for a third term in 2006, an internal memo at the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said his departure from Washington “creates a big hole that we need to fill.

How did the Colorado polls look before last Tuesday? No matter how much you try to jam Mitt Romney down our collective throats, he is still 3-5 this election cycle, and much worse in 2008. Almost half of Massachusetts Republicans chose someone else in the '08 primary there. The establishment keeps touting his electability. Based on what? People don't dig your candidate. You can bash Newt and Rick all you want. You miss the point. Many of us just look at them as vehicles to end the candidacy of your big hero: the Flip-Floppin' Father Of Obamacare.

So, you gay and lesbian folks out there, you're not allow to get married or bother with those "civil unions" - because we say so.

Oh, and you women out there, you're not allow to get free birth control pills, you should have to pay for them because it would kill pharma profits. And should you get an unwanted pregnancy, you not allowed to get an abortion either - because we say so. And just think what that would do hospital profits.

Oh, and you folks in unions out there, you're not allowed to do unionize anymore - because we say so.

Oh, and you teachers, cops and firefighters out there, you going to pay your own insurance - because you now allow to unionize as stated above, and for teaching our kids and protecting our lives has just become to expensive, because after we repeal Obamacare - you're on you own.

Oh, and you people out there who thought you were going to get coverage under Obamacare - think again! All you people with pre-existing conditions - well you can just keep them to yourself because you on your own again!